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>On Thu, 10 Nov 1994, Charles O'Hara wrote: > >> Hello Judith, >> As a smoker also - lung cancer - emphasema(?) - other related diseases from >> smoking, in addition to Parkinson's - cannot be all that good. We smokers >> CHOOSE to smoke. We choose to allow ourselves a slow, painful death from >> smoking related diseases. We choose to fatten the pockets of the tabacco >> industry. We choose, by our own example, to encourage our children to >> smoke. And, so they do, don't they. Slow down at the next school bus stop >> you pass - check out the children smoking. WE choose to smoke. >> Whom, of this group, has CHOSEN Parkinson's? >> Please, excuse me--- I HAD to respond to this message! >> Sharon O'Hara >> > >> >This is almost too thrilling...to think there may be some GOOD outcome of >> >our smoking! >> >Judith >> > >Sharon, Of course you are right. I really was attempting a rather self >conscious joke. Alas, my beloved son, aged 32, smokes exactly like his >mama, gestures and all. As you may know, I teach. It is now against the >law here in Washington to smoke on any school property. That means that >I spend my lunch hour parked outside the school fence getting in my quota >of vice. I'm sure I do not present a positive picture to students nor to >their parents who hunt me out in my car (fondly known as the pool hall) >in order to chat with me. I trust you are not too offended by my smoggy >attempt at humor. >Judith > > Judith, Offended? No. Sad? Yes. In future, if I see a parent huddled, smoke filled, "pool hall" outside a school fence - I'll honk a hello and best wishes to a fellow 'offender.' Sharon O'Hara